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[pickmire an erroneous book-name for the pickmaw: prob. a copyist's or printer's error. Appears in Bewick's Brit. Birds, 1808, vol. II (not by Bewick) 226, whence in Montagu Ornith. Dict. 1812, Swainson Prov. Names Brit. Birds (E.D.S.), who erroneously locates it in Roxburghshire (where pick-maw is the name). ] |